Record ID: NMS-89B182
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver fragment probably of a dress fastener. Flat-sectioned plate with two small projecting pierced lugs for attachment with a small pellet between, decorated in low relief with a fleur-de-lis within a triangular border with a pellet at the end of a scroll to either side below the pierced lugs. The lower edge is broken, probably across a loop. Surviving length 11.5mm. Width 11mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Weight 1.0g. For broadly similar examples see SUSS-3C97C2 and SOM-FDD898. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-797A7A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring. D-sectioned band inscribed internally in italics Tis your consent is my content followed by a partially worn and completely illegible stamped maker's mark. The S of 'consent' is elongated, and the 'e' following it only partially engraved. Width of band 3mm. External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 16.5mm. Weight 1.8g. There are several similar examples in the collections of the British Museum, including Museum Number 1961,1202.82. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-79E837
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gilded silver hook from a composite hook-and-eye set. Circular plate with a border of twisted wire, a central circle of plain wire with four evenly spaced ovals of plain wire linking the central circle and edge. A hook formed from a piece of wire bent double with the ends bent into loops to forms eyes is soldered to the reverse. Diameter of plate 10mm. Length 11mm. Read (2008, 159, no.598 and 599) Class B, Type 2. See ESS-FC3336 for a similar example. 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-79AA0C
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gilded silver composite hooked tag. Trefoil back-plate with notched edges, three domed bosses each decorated with three filigree circles around a central pellet, with a butterfly rivet (split pin) securing a small disc with irregularly cut edges at the centre. On the reverse is a separate soldered hook, and a separate soldered rectangular-sectioned loop stamped with a maker's mark AK or KK. Length 17mm. Width 14.5mm. Weight 2.5mm. 16th century. For a similar example see NMS-0A8C23.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-60A4F2
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver cuff-link button. Octagonal with downturned edge and separate soldered loop on the reverse. The front face is decorated with engraved curved lines forming a border around the edge, with a central flower. Width 14mm. Height (including loop) 5mm. Weight 0.8g. Circa 18th century.
Created on: Friday 13th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9AE5E7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver mount, now distorted and incomplete, the surviving part in two joining pieces. A conical faceted sexfoil, each foil with a median arris terminating in a short pointed projection at the outer edge, with an engraved line separating each foil, and a central hole in the flat apex of the cone. Height 17mm. Diameter of base (reconstructed) circa 34mm. Weight 3.3g. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 16th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7AFB36
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable ingot. Gold bar, with irregular, sub-triangular section, pitted on two faces and smooth on the convex third, rounded at one end, shallow angled cuts on the opposing pitted faces before a granular break at the other. Surviving length 50mm. Section 6 x 7mm. Weight 21.1g. Undated but very probably ancient (over 300 years old).
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-CA73D5
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver composite dress hook. Lozengiform back-plate supporting a larger lozengiform frame with a large plain knop at each corner and three ribbed knops on each side, with a stepped border around the central lozengiform aperture. A separate complex openwork quatrefoil, each foil consisting of crosshatched lobe flanked by tendrils perhaps representing thistles, is secured to the back-plate by a dome-headed butterfly-clip. A rectangular-sectioned attachment loop is soldered to the reverse of the frame and a sharp hook, now slightly bent, is soldered to the frame and back-pl…
Created on: Thursday 13th August 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9B905B
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver seal matrix. Octagonally faceted handle with triple ribbed collar and globular terminal pierced for suspension. Maker's marks stamped twice on the reverse, both worn but probably BC or BG with a pellet above and below within an oval. There is a well-defined line of differential patination inset from but following the edge of the reverse which goes through both marks. Incised bell with canons, vertical ribs on the crown, a band of dots and transverse ribs on the body, the clapper protruding below the rim, with an inner single line and outer beaded border. Octagonal…
Created on: Tuesday 11th August 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-18AEC3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Mount or inlay. Fragment of flat-sectioned silver strip, parallel sided, broken at one end, the other end an angled concave edge with the corners broken. The upper face decorated with a flower and leaves on a field keyed for niello, much of which survives. There is a narrow, plain border around the edge without niello. On the reverse are discoloured patches probably the result of solder, with no other visible means of attachment. Surviving dimensions 21 x 12 x 1mm. Weight 1.1g. The size of the fragment has made finding parallels difficult and consequently a broad date range of 15…
Created on: Thursday 10th September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wiveton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-29BDBB
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver, gilded dress fastener eye-plate. Cast in low relief in the form of a stylised cherub's face with trefoil sprigs of probable foliage above and below, the larger upper sprigs framing the base of the circular eye, the lower smaller sprigs framing a an attachment loop to either side of the cherub. Flat, plain reverse. Gilding survives on the front face only. Length 14mm. Width 10mm. Thickness 2.5mm. Weight 0.8g. 16th century. For a very similar example see SOM-616C6A.
Created on: Friday 11th September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Witchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0C1C46
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver ring with an irregular faceted and worn section. External diameter 24 - 25mm. Internal diameter 18 - 19mm. Thickness 3 - 4mm. Weight 4.2g. The ring is undecorated, without marks and not neatly finished and is therefore unlikely to have been a finger ring. It is very similar to many recorded examples of 14th - 16th century copper alloy rings possibly used to hang drapes (Egan, 1998, 62 - 4), or possible simple brooches or buckles. However, the degree of wear and lack of diagnostic features makes close dating impossible, although it is likely to be ancient and over 300 years old.
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-CEA310
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver gilt finger ring. The ring is made with a narrow band supposrting a square, lightly curved bezel that is decorated with Style 1 ornament within a simple border. The ornament is cryptic and composed of a 'helmeted' hip and two highly stylised legs associated with an unintelligible body. This runs obliquely across the field in the form of a double band that is broken by a single strand placed at right-angles across it. There also is a short, separate fragment of the loop.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F30042
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Fragment of a silver gilt Anglo Saxon disc brooch. No original edge survives. About half of one, a quarter of another and a fragment of the border of a third gilded lentoid field with beaded borders around a foliate design flank a central panel containing silver foliate decoration emerging from a field containing traces of niello. The brooch is broken across a rivet hole at the junction between two of the lentoid fields. From photographs, this fragment appears to join another discovered in 2001 and reported as Treasure Case 2001 T31, described in the 2001 Treasure Re…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldborough area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-946A91
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete composite strap-end. Rectangular plate, forked spacer or sheet spacer broken accross aperture, back-plate with concave attachment edge, openwork front-plate with open-ended trefioil aperture, the upper edge broken. Concave constriction before short projections followed by acorn knop terminal formed from spacer, front-plate, back-plate and additional hemispherical plates on the front and back secured by a single rivet. Second rivet through plate below openwork aperture. Length 30mm. Width 11mm. The upper edge of the back-plate appears to be complete, but the ends of the spac…
Created on: Wednesday 30th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-46A4D6
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of probable Middle or Late Bronze Age gold sheet strip or ribbon ornament decorated on one face with nine longitudinal grooves. One end has been chopped obliquely, while the other is apparently complete and slightly convex. Length at least 16mm. Width 8.5 - 9mm. Thickness 0.4mm. Weight 0.86g. For notes on Bronze Age ribbon ornaments see Treasure Annual Report 2007 47-8, nos. 38 and 39. c.1300 - c.800 BC.
Created on: Friday 22nd June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-013F85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt knob from a radiate-headed brooch, with a hollow underside and perforated ends. The front is decorated with a mask comprising eyebrows, a nasal ridge between the eyes within pairs of concentric ribs, and nostrils. Cf. Ashley et al (1990), fig.1, no.3, and other knobs from Fransham and Marham.
Created on: Monday 9th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hunstanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9F34F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a composite silver disc brooch of rosette shape, with inlaid garnets and silver filigree ornament; it dates to the early part of the early-medieval period and is perhaps of Frankish manufacture. Six of twelve trapezoidal cells around the edge are extant, each with a convex outer edge and set with a cloisonné garnet on pointillé gold foil. These radiate from a circle containing two elliptical cells set with cloisonné garnets and a central panel with silver wire spirals on a silver backplate. Where the radiating cells have been broken, reddish brown material can be s…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-410B73
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy mount of Boucher's (2008) Type B5 dating to the period c. AD 80 - 250. Openwork circular terminals (one broken) with short projections to either side before a central, raised rectangular plate. The circular terminals each has a crescent-shaped cell retaining corroded blue enamel or glass, and the outer edge of the complete circle may be damaged, suggesting a possible further elemnet sucha as a knop has broken off. There is a circular hole through the rectangular plate now filled with corroded iron and surounded by a circular collar or rove on the reverse. There are …
Created on: Monday 14th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1537C3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy propeller-shaped belt stiffener, sub-circular centre between flaring trapezoidal terminals, one of which is missing, with a prominant rectangular-sectioned, median, longitudinal rib terminating ina piercing in the surviving flared terminal retaining a copper alloy rivet. 4th century but such objects occur in Early Anglo-Saxon contexts (Macgregor and Bolick 1993, 210 and 212, cat. nos. 36.8 and 9). Length 32mm, reconstructed 50mm. Width 17mm. For similar examples see NMS-EEDF21 and NMS-19CE40.
Created on: Thursday 24th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
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